Quit Your Day Job: FarmsteadOrganics
Jennifer of FarmsteadOrganics recently contacted me with her story of selling on Etsy full time. Jennifer and her husband decided to make the most of some bad news when they found out her husband's company would be making some cut backs and he would be losing his job. After some consideration and …
Special Frontpage Children's Showcase: On Sale on Thursday July 10, 2008
UPDATE: The special Handmade Kids Showcase has been extended through August 11, 11:59pm. Sellers can continue to purchase spots in this Showcase for your Childrens category items. The following was originally posted on July 9.Dear Sellers,In conjunction with our Handmade Kids project, we'll be running a …
Featured Buyer: Jenn of Minor Details with Picks for the Family Friendly Home
We have a special Featured Buyer this week: Jennifer Ward aka minordetails, the owner, blogger, Imagination Agent and Creative Director of Minor Details Design, a children’s interior consulting firm focusing on commercial, residential, and recreational spaces. Jennifer also writes a daily blog about …
SouleMama's Creativity: Food & Family
Amanda Soule of SouleMama shares advice, Etsy Finds, and a placemat project How-To for you and your kids to explore food and life creatively.Please introduce yourself and talk a bit about your blog and book.Hello! I'm Amanda of SouleMama, and author of The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and …
Tagging Tips for Sellers: Kids, Baby, and Maternity
Hello sellers of children's, baby, and maternity items! The Handmade Kids series prompted us to start a conversation about tagging your items. Finding the right tags is an easy way to increase the number of buyers who are seeing your items. Here are a few suggestions for tags to use to improve your exposure …
Introducing a New Etsy Project: Handmade Kids
Dear Sellers,This past Spring, we brought you the Handmade Wedding series, so ... bet you guessed what's up next! Handmade Kids.* We here at Etsy have noticed through our research that this special project has the potential to reach a lot of new customers and generate growth for children's sellers as well as Etsy …
Etsy Finds: Can I Finally Be a Member, andrealagrillo?
At the height of Michael Jackson's fame in 1983, my older brother, Josh, got a super-rad, epauletted Member's Only Jacket. I was so incredibly jealous. Not only did it look vaguely like the jacket that The King of Pop wore in his Thriller video, my brother told me that I would never be allowed to have one because I …
The Generations of Men on Etsy
During our Virtual Labs office hours, Etsian abitabite tipped the Storque that a post about humbleglory, Rith, and donaldrith would make an interesting story about three generations of men on Etsy — ripe for our Dude's Perspective series. Turns out this family has even more relatives on Etsy than we'd …
When You Don't Like Your Mom...
Mother's Day can be pretty annoying. Not to disparage all the amazing moms out there, but some of us have "challenging" relationships with Mama. Here is a collection of humorous pieces to lighten the overbearing load.Most likely you have other cool people in your life and Mother's Day is a good time to share a …
